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• RSELL T. DAVI EXPLAS WHY HE ONLY CASTS GAY ACTORS GAY ROL
• ‘IT’S A S’ CREATOR RSELL T DAVI SAYS IT’S IMPORTANT TO CAST GAY ACTORS AS GAY CHARACTERS
• CROWE BE GAY IN
• IT’S A S CREATOR RSELL T DAVI: “CAST GAY AS GAY”
• STRAIGHT CORONATN STREET STAR CIS HE’S THE THORY ON WHICH ACTORS SHOULD PLAY GAY ROL
• 'LOOKG' ACTOR RSELL TOVEY REACTS TO BACKLASH OM GAY MEN, NEARLY A DE AFTER HBO SERI END
• TORCHWOOD STAR ADMS HE WAS ‘OVERSENSIVE’ ABOUT RSELL T DAVI STG GAY ACTORS GAY ROL AFTER ‘SULKY’ TWEET
• GAY ACTOR RSELL TOVEY ON JACK WHEHALL PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER: 'IF YOU'RE AN ACTOR, YOU'RE AN ACTOR'
• SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAY GAY ROL? A STAR TV WRER SAYS NO

RSELL T. DAVI EXPLAS WHY HE ONLY CASTS GAY ACTORS GAY ROL

Davi, the Brish TV creator behd Queer as Folk, the BBC’s Doctor Who revival and recent h Years and Years, has discsed only stg gay actors the role of gay male characters. “I’m not beg woke about this… but I feel strongly that if I st someone a story, I am stg them to act as a lover, or an enemy, or someone on dgs or a crimal or a sat… they are not there to ‘act gay’ bee ‘actg gay’ is a bunch of s for a performance.

It’s a S, followg a group of young gay men who move to London jt as the epimic starts and loosely based on Davi own experienc the early 1980s, stars Olly Alexanr, Neil Patrick Harris, and Stephen Fry. Rsell T Davi, the creator of Channel 4 and HBO Max’s upg AIDS crisis seri It’s A S, has spoken out about the importance of stg gay actors as gay characters. The A Very English Sndal wrer told the Rad Tim: “I’m not beg woke about this… but I feel strongly that if I st someone a story, I am stg them to act as a lover, or an enemy, or someone on dgs or a crimal or a sat… they are not there to ‘act gay’ bee ‘actg gay’ is a bunch of s for a performance.

Davi was not emphatic about only stg gay actors as gay characters — and his past work shows that straight men have featured gay rol he has thored.

‘IT’S A S’ CREATOR RSELL T DAVI SAYS IT’S IMPORTANT TO CAST GAY ACTORS AS GAY CHARACTERS

Channel 4’s 1999 seri Queer as Folk featured straight actors Aidan Gillen, Craig Kelly, and Charlie Hunnam as three men livg the Manchter gay scene.

CROWE BE GAY IN

It’s A S is loosely based on Davi’ own life, explorg iendship and love durg the 1980s AIDS crisis through the ey of three young gay men as they embark on a new life London.

But the 1980s I kept my head down and worked a lot, I didn’t start gog out properly on the gay scene until I was my 30s, the 90s. Thanks to the shownners drivg thentic stori, filmmakers buckg s-old heteronormative paradigms, actors embolned to live more hontly and platforms bankrollg so much of , beg gay, queer, transgenr or any other other has never been more wily embraced the entertament s gural Pri issue, The Hollywood Reporter homed on the talent and makers helpg boost visibily and creatg opportuni for members of the extend LGBTQ muny.

IT’S A S CREATOR RSELL T DAVI: “CAST GAY AS GAY”

After more than a of Watch What Happens Live Wh Andy Cohen, where he beme the first openly gay host Amerin late night, Bravo's exec turned talent tackl all kds of media (SiriXM show Rad Andy, multiple books), while upliftg and advotg for the LGBTQ muny.

STRAIGHT CORONATN STREET STAR CIS HE’S THE THORY ON WHICH ACTORS SHOULD PLAY GAY ROL

I'LL FEEL GOOD ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LGBTQ REPRESENTATION WHEN "As much reprentatn as there is, there are very few big gay love stori.

'LOOKG' ACTOR RSELL TOVEY REACTS TO BACKLASH OM GAY MEN, NEARLY A DE AFTER HBO SERI END

Puttg his stamp on The Ln Kg — he played Timon to great acclaim the billn-dollar-earng Disney reboot — the out-and-proud funnyman will next play Matt Ddge  Amerin Crime Story: Impeachment while his upg Judd Apatow-produced feature at Universal is set to be the first gay rom- om a major stud. Creator of the NBC s One Big Happy and her own YouTube talk show This Jt Out, Feldman recently ma her Netflix edy outright queer, as Dead to Me's sophomore season revealed a lead character to be bisexual.

I FELT MOST PROUD TO BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY LAST YEAR WHEN "An openly gay man beme a te ntenr as a printial ndidate. Broadst TV's first openly gay chief exec has ed his new post atop WarnerMedia's direct-to-nsumer bs to she a spotlight. Lee's sophomore film, perd lbian love story Ammone, starrg Kate Wslet and Saoirse Ronan, is due out late 2020 om Neon.

Levy, who -created the show wh dad Eugene, earned legns of admirers fans and crics alike for craftg a same-sex love story a seri that was ee of homophobia. Watchg Rickie Vasquez, a gay character played by an openly gay actor, Wilson Cz, certaly felt like the most hont and rpectful portrayal of a gay teen I had ever seen.

TORCHWOOD STAR ADMS HE WAS ‘OVERSENSIVE’ ABOUT RSELL T DAVI STG GAY ACTORS GAY ROL AFTER ‘SULKY’ TWEET

I'LL FEEL GOOD ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LGBTQ REPRESENTATION WHEN "When 'gay actor, ' 'gay director, ' 'gay wrer, ' 'gay story, ' et cetera, are no longer labels even worth mentng. In addn to speakg, and sgg, publicly about his own gay relatnships, Platt plays bi on The Polician — acuntg for several of the seri' many entangled LGBTQ romanc.

The Pose star beme the first openly gay black man to w the dramatic lead actor Emmy 2019, the year he turned heads for butg genr-ntral red rpet looks.

GAY ACTOR RSELL TOVEY ON JACK WHEHALL PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER: 'IF YOU'RE AN ACTOR, YOU'RE AN ACTOR'

The show will leave a legacy of thentic pictns of sexualy — cludg scen volvg gay character Lnel (DeRon Horton), moled after Simien himself. The 'gay black spir' driv so much popular culture, through slang, mic, fashn, meme culture, dance and all manners of 'the arts. ' Yet, is still all too rare to fd — or produce Hollywood — stori where the humany of gay black men is not qutn, but is a given and is central to the story.

LGBTQ STORY I'D LOVE TO SEE ONSCREEN "Would feature gay women of lor livg and lovg a three-dimensnal way, whout the imposn of polics. In 2019, the bisexual actor uld be seen as French New Wave in Jean Seberg Venice premiere tle Seberg, as a secret agent Sony's Charlie's Angels reboot and on a particularly gay episo of SNL. The queer Salvadoran edian translated the handful of breakout Saturday Night Live scen he wrote to multiple als at HBO — where he buted the edy special My Favore Shap  2019 and is readyg season two of Los Espookys, the half-Spanish, half-English, entirely absurd edy which he stars as the gay heir to a cholate fortune.

After 45 seasons, 's hard to believe there are any firsts left for Saturday Night Live — but Yang arrived at 30 Rock 2019 as the st's first Che Amerin stmember and only s third openly gay male. Rsell Tovey is a gay, English, actor, thor, playwright and screenwrer, who first broke onto the actg scene as werewolf Gee Sands the h BBC televisn seri "Beg Human. " After his 2009 stt as Sands "Beg Human, " Tovey got the break of a lifetime when he was st as Kev Mathon the groundbreakg HBO drama "Lookg, " which centers around a group of gay, male iends and their liv San Francis.

SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAY GAY ROL? A STAR TV WRER SAYS NO

"When I was younger I thought I was straight, bee I was more attracted to women, and I didn't know there were more optns bis gay and straight.